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The Big Conversation Despite his challenger's vow to take a speaker vote to the floor on the first day of session, backers of House Speaker Joe Straus spent Tuesday trying to demonstrate the race is already a foregone conclusion. In two separate releases, a total of 21 GOP House members ...

A dozen more House Republicans publicly pledged their support to Speaker Joe Straus on Tuesday morning, bringing the total number of members expected to back him above the 76 votes he needs to be elected for a fourth term as speaker. State Rep. Geanie Morrison , R-Victoria, released a statement ...

On the same day a petition to repeal a measure granting transgender equality failed in Houston, 63 GOP state legislators signed an amicus brief stating that same-sex marriage could lead to legal recognition of polygamy, incest and pedophelia. The group of Republican signatories are members of the Texas Conservative Coalition ...

Just off Highway 59 in fast-growing Fort Bend County, two academic buildings make up a multi-institutional teaching center known as the University of Houston Sugar Land . Most of its university courses are offered by the University of Houston-Victoria , a small but ambitious institution more than 100 miles away. ...

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